Re: Schedule for adding pata to kernel?

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Robert Hancock wrote:
> James Cloos wrote:
> > Incidently, on that front, what is the magic to make it work?
> >
> > I've not yet tried with 2.6.16 final, but I didn't have any luck with
> > earlier versions.
> >
> > I have a:
> >
> > ,----[lspci]
> > | 00:1f.1 0101: 8086:244a (rev 03)
> > | 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BAM IDE U100 (rev 03)
> > `----
> >
> > but never managed to determine the CONFIG that used ata_piix rather
> > than the old ide drivers.  Each attempt left me with a kernel which
> > could not mount its root....
>
> What distribution? If you're building ata_piix and the other drivers 
> (scsi, sd, etc.) as modules you'll have to play with your initrd to get 
> it to load the correct modules on startup. If you build them into the 
> kernel, it should just work..

Normally you add the requisite drivers to /etc/modprobe.conf, and 
mkinitrd should select the correct modules from there.

	Jeff



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